SCOPS and COWS—‘Worming it out of UK farmers’

Taylor, Mike

doi:10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.11.047

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“…Due to increasing reports of AR, guidelines and extension programs were created to promote sustainable worm control, such as Sustainable Control of Parasites in Sheep (SCOPS) for small ruminants and Control of Worms Sustainably (COWS) for cattle in the UK ( 42 ), and Wormkill, WormBoss ( 43 ) for small ruminants in Australia, to name a few. These initiatives are a collaboration between interested parties from across all sectors of the industry with a view to developing guidelines intended to develop and promote practical recommendations for producers and advisors ( 44 ).…”

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Farmer Behavior and Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Ruminant Livestock—Uptake of Sustainable Control Approaches

Velde

Charlier²,

Claerebout

2018

Front. Vet. Sci.

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Gastrointestinal nematode (GIN) infections are a common constraint in pasture-based herds and cause a decrease in animal health, productivity and farm profitability. Current control practices to prevent production losses of GIN infections in livestock depend largely on the use of anthelmintic drugs. However, due to the continued use of these drugs over more than three decades, the industry is now increasingly confronted with nematode populations resistant to the available anthelmintics. This emerging anthelmintic resistance (AR) in cattle nematodes emphasizes the need for a change toward more sustainable control approaches that limit, prevent or reverse the development of AR. The uptake of diagnostic methods for sustainable control could enable more informed treatment decisions and reduce excessive anthelmintic use. Different diagnostic and targeted or targeted selective anthelmintic control approaches that slow down the selection pressure for anthelmintic resistance have been developed and evaluated recently. Now it is time to transform these insights into guidelines for sustainable control and communicate them across the farmer community. This article reviews the current uptake of such sustainable practices with a focus on farmer's socio-psychological factors affecting this uptake. We investigate communication as a possible tool to change current behavior and successfully implement more sustainable anthelmintic treatment strategies.

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Farmer Behavior and Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Ruminant Livestock—Uptake of Sustainable Control Approaches

Velde

Charlier²,

Claerebout

2018

Front. Vet. Sci.

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“…Ostertagiosis makes its greatest economic impact (clinical and subclinical disease) in the context of first and second-grazing season calves and the decision to treat adult cows to improve milk yield must always be based on a proper cost-benefit analysis, whilst taking issues of anthelmintic resistance into consideration [84]. A bulk milk test for O. ostertagi antibodies at the end of a grazing season in the adult herd may assist the planning of worm control strategies for replacement heifers in the next season [85].…”

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Bulk milk ELISA and the diagnosis of parasite infections in dairy herds: a review

2013

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The bulk milk enzyme-linked immune sorbent assay (ELISA) is a rapid and inexpensive method of assessing herd exposure to pathogens that is increasingly being used for the diagnosis of parasite infections in dairy herds. In this paper, with the dairy herd health veterinarian in mind, we review the principles of the assay and the recent literature on the potential role of bulk milk ELISA for the diagnosis of ostertagiosis, fasciolosis, parasitic bronchitis due to cattle lung worm and neosporosis. It is generally accepted that assay results reflect exposure to the parasite rather than the presence of active infection. Bulk milk ELISA can be a useful tool for the veterinary practitioner as a component of a herd health monitoring programme or in the context of a herd health investigation. It can also play a role in regional or national surveillance programmes. However, the results need to be interpreted within the context of the herd-specific health management, the milk production pattern and the parasite life cycle.

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“…The control of nematode infections relies heavily on the use of anthelmintics. With the advent of anthelmintic-resistant nematode populations, there have been several calls for sustainable nematode control practices, which would protect the future use of current anthelmintic families (van Wyk and others 2006, Taylor 2012). Two important concepts have been introduced to study and promote the sustainable use of anthelmintics (Kenyon and Jackson 2012): targeted treatments (TT), where the whole flock/herd is treated based on knowledge of the risk, or parameters that quantify the severity of infection; and targeted selective treatments (TST), where only individual animals within the grazing group are treated, based on a single, or a combination of, treatment indicators, such as faecal egg count (FEC), weight gain, milk yield and body condition score.…”

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Practices to optimise gastrointestinal nematode control on sheep, goat and cattle farms in Europe using targeted (selective) treatments

Morgan²,

et al. 2014

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Due to the development of anthelmintic resistance, there have been calls for more sustainable nematode control practices. Two important concepts were introduced to study and promote the sustainable use of anthelmintics: targeted treatments (TT), where the whole flock/herd is treated based on knowledge of the risk, or parameters that quantify the severity of infection; and targeted selective treatments (TST), where only individual animals within the grazing group are treated. The aim of the TT and TST approaches is to effectively control nematode-induced production impacts while preserving anthelmintic efficacy by maintaining a pool of untreated parasites in refugia. Here, we provide an overview of recent studies that assess the use of TT/TST against gastrointestinal nematodes in ruminants and investigate the economic consequences, feasibility and knowledge gaps associated with TST. We conclude that TT/TST approaches are ready to be used and provide practical benefits today. However, a major shift in mentality will be required to make these approaches common practice in parasite control.

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SCOPS and COWS—‘Worming it out of UK farmers’

Cited by 28 publications

References 30 publications

Farmer Behavior and Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Ruminant Livestock—Uptake of Sustainable Control Approaches

Farmer Behavior and Gastrointestinal Nematodes in Ruminant Livestock—Uptake of Sustainable Control Approaches

Bulk milk ELISA and the diagnosis of parasite infections in dairy herds: a review

Practices to optimise gastrointestinal nematode control on sheep, goat and cattle farms in Europe using targeted (selective) treatments

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